UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered earlier this month, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system status quo and kill any attempts to reform it.

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    Mere hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed off the public option in a 2009 interview with CNN, a top UnitedHealthcare lobbyist sent out an email to various Washington insiders inviting them to a $2,400-per-person “event with Speaker Pelosi at my home.”

    And people keep insisting on pretending that the Dem leadership cares about the working class 🤦🤬